THREE ETRUSCAN PAINTED SARCOPHAGI 



The three sarcophagi to which this article is devoted were purchased 

 on two occasions by the Field Museum, through the intermediation of 

 Mr. Edward E. Ayer, from a well-known dealer in Rome, Alessandro 

 Jandolo. Two of the three, referred to below as A and B, are mentioned as 

 new acquisitions in the Annual Report of the Field Museum for 1901-02, 

 p. 95. These two were seen by the late Professor Furtwangler in the early 

 autumn of 1904, and are briefly described in the report published by him 

 after his return to Munich on the antiquities, Greek, Italian, etc., which he 

 found in American museums.' The third sarcophagus, C, acquired some 

 ten or eleven years later, is mentioned in the Annual Report for 191 2, but 

 has received no further notice in print. 



The information available regarding the discovery of these sarcophagi is 

 painfully meager and contradictory. Five similar specimens are known to 

 have been found, probably three in or about the year 1900, and two sub- 

 sequently, perhaps as late as 1910 or 191 1. These all passed through the 

 hands of the Jandolo brothers. From a recent letter * written by Alessandro 

 Jandolo to Mr. Ayer in response to inquiries it appears that the two speci- 

 mens which are not in Chicago were sold to Dr. Ludwig PoUak, who disposed 

 of one to the Museum in Berlin, and the other, Jandolo thinks, to "a great 

 Cop)enhagen brewer" (that is, Jacobsen). Of the latter I can learn nothing 

 further. As it is not included in the catalogue of the Ny Carlsberg Glyp- 

 totek (edition of 1907), it must, if in that collection, have been acquired 



* Neue Denkm&ler antiker Kunst m, MQnchener Sitzungsberichte, 1905, p. 248. 



*The relevant part of Jandolo's letter is, with his own punctuation, as follows: 

 "Ricordo benissimo i tre sarcofagi in tufo da Ella acquistati. Anzi come da sua lettera, 

 erano cinque e due di questi furono comprate dal Prof. Lodovico Pollak e son sicuro chc 

 uno trovasi a Berlino, I'altro credo lo comprasse un grande negoziante di birra di Copen- 

 hagen. Riguardo la provenienza furono da mio fratello Antonio comprati nelle vicinanze 

 di Toscanella (ora [sic!] Toscania circondario Viterbo) in concorrenza dell' antiquario 

 Saturaino Innocenti. L'epoca in cui furono trovati fu di pochi mesi avanti che Lei 

 ne facesse acquisto da me; suppellettili non ve ne erano essendo state le tombe gi4 aperte 



anticamente Non so darle altri dettagli essendo morto il mio povero fratello c il 



proprietario che glieli vendette." The foregoing account would naturally be understood 

 as implying that the five sarcophagi were bought by Antonio Jandolo at one time. This, 

 if intended, is almost certainly an error, for according to Mr. .\yer's clear memory C was 

 not in Jandolo's possession at the time when A and B were bought for the Field Museum. 



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